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David Velasquez

always tried to purchase a back-up cake). Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My mother (I still love you, Dad). I could write an entire book about the sacrifices that she made for my brothers and me. For the... View Details

20 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

anyone reading this and still in the closet, it's okay. Move at your own pace. You don't need to come out today or even next year. But when you do, it will be worth it. Matt Wood (he/him), Class of 2024 Coming out as queer felt like I was finally given the agency and... View Details

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

However, there was substantial variation among academic departments. That finding suggests that there was not yet a systematic effort to diversify case protagonists. With that insight in mind, we delved into faculty characteristics. Were some faculty more likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

really your life. This is his story. And the question is, are you going to play your part? Are you going to write your chapter? So I do think that as an African American CEO in corporate America, I really have a responsibility looking... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

17 Apr 2022
Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

be conscious. You have to put the work in. You have to live it Cultivating positive ethics within our companies is among the most important things we can do.” Surveys show plenty of work still needs to be done. Nelson and Stout write that... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

Unfair. Undignified. Inappropriate, unprofessional, distasteful—and most of all, repugnant. To the wonder and surprise of Alvin E. Roth, a Harvard economist, these harsh words are often hoisted to describe an important task of his: designing and building new markets.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2023
What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

introduction to Ms. Hesselbein in 1988. Case preparation, appearances in my classes, and writing for her later publications then followed. "As Hesselbein put it, 'the power of language is so important in this job.'" Welch and Hesselbein... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

judgment and competence (logic), and when they believe that you care about them (empathy). When trust is lost, it can almost always be traced back to a breakdown in one of these three drivers. You can find the roots of this framework in Aristotle’s View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

missed her cousin’s funeral and a chance to meet her best friend’s newborn because of work trips—Whillans spent that Christmas alone in her apartment reflecting on her missteps and started writing her book, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

writings of the social reformer Jacob Riis, Herbert focused on public housing, child labor laws, minimum wages, unemployment relief, and aid for disabled children, the blind, and mothers with young children. He was also an early advocate... View Details

07 Jul 2011
What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

following only those willing to adapt? Should someone write yet another book, perhaps with a title like Commit: Why Success Always Requires Continued Commitment to Good Ideas? What's the downside of "adapt"? What do you think?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11

cutbacks Previous studies have delved into the fact that the threat of prison time and fines can deter white-collar criminals from committing crimes that can greatly harm corporations, investors, and consumers alike, not to mention financial markets and the economy in... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

retail stores, textile manufacturers, clothing or cigarette makers—to say nothing of the indignity of mail-order houses and five-and-ten operations—Philip Lehman led his cousins directly into such businesses with quickly profitable results,” Stephen Birmingham View Details

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

culture and legacy," Garvin continues. "History has power. Faulkner writes in Requiem for a Nun, 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' Old ways of thinking and acting are deeply embedded and slow to change. So... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

PublicationsInflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization Authors:Nancy O.Andrews and Nicolas P. Retsinas Publication:In Investing in What Works for America's Communities. San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2012 Abstract An abstract is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2020
Case

King's College Hospital in Crisis

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Financing; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Strategic Planning; United Kingdom

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01 Dec 2023
News

Venturing Forth

Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

Criticism. The immediacy of today's consumer complaints represents a power shift between companies and consumers. The former are more pressured than ever to address the concerns of the latter. In the past, customers with an individual beef could View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

28 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

of drawing conclusions for all new pharmaceutical products.” According to the data analysis, the BTD program is likely to have saved millions of dollars in research time without compromising drug safety or efficacy for qualifying medicines. The researchers View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

Portrait Project

Brooke Biederman

family, and a whole lot of luck on my side. Slowly, I learned how to eat again, how to read again, how to write again, how to walk again, and yes, how to run again. Before this, I had always been cheerful, optimistic, and appreciative.... View Details

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